Okay, so this is entirely new to me. Sparrow is was an email client for Mac OS X and iOS (and Windows), which brought a decent Gmail experience to these platforms - as opposed to Apple's own not-so-good Gmail support and Google's Gmail iOS application which, well, is just a webpage. Google has now acquired Sparrow, and basically all hell has broken loose, to the point of Rian van der Merwe writing that 'we' lost "faith in a philosophy that we thought was a sustainable way to ensure a healthy future for independent software development, where most innovation happens".

Even hardcore open source haters use open source now. It's unavoidable.

Now, if only some OSS-devotees - who likewise absolutely can't avoid depending on closed software behind large part of our modern world (perhaps even to a more fundamental degree) - would stop hatin'...